Hagit Levy joined Baruch College in 2010 after completing her Ph.D. in Accounting at Columbia University. Her research interests focus on the effects of information asymmetry on managerial decisions and on the effects of managerial incentives on real activities. Hagit’s research has won awards and has been published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Management Science, Review of Accounting Studies, and Contemporary Accounting Research, among others. Hagit has been teaching various financial accounting courses as well as accounting information systems and data analytics to undergraduates and graduate students at Baruch College. In 2015, she received the Teaching Excellence Award from the Zicklin School of Business. In 2022, she received the AACSB George Krull/Grant Thornton teaching innovation honorary mention award for her randomized data analytics case studies. Before joining the academia, Hagit worked as a consultant for an applied economic consultancy firm in different areas such as industrial organization, risk assessments and macro-economic trends. She holds a B.A. in Economics and Business Administration and an M.A. in Economics from Tel Aviv University and an M.Phil in Finance from Columbia University.